[Nowhere Man]

After some thought I said to him, I have know something that resembles real freedom, nothing like what we have now, which is only illusory. In 1980, before MADD there was a modicum of real freedom. Now the USA has become a police state.

I remember talkshow host Michael Savage said, "in 1970 (or 1980 as you put it) your father made 1/3rd as much as you do but he had more freedom." I was born in 1966, not quite an X'er but not quite a Baby Boomer, I like to call myself a "Joneser" for "Generation Jones" that encompasses late Boomers and early X'ers, a sub-niche if you will. Like you, I remember that time.

[Ouderkirk]

I am 1962 and so the difference between us is not much now.

The difference between the X’er and myself is that the world he has inhabited since he came of age was already infested by MADD, and the various other groups that were spawned of their success.

The world of freedom has condensed considerably in the last 30 years, and we can rest assured that the freedom(s) enjoyed by our father(s) had been similarly reduced by FDR and his like minded communists, and thr corresponding reduction in the freedom of our fathers from their fathers.

There has bee a consistent slide in the available liberty to each succeeding generation. such that there is so little freedom left. The world my sons will inhabit is frighteningly free of liberty. That is what the future portends when the like of Baraq Obunghole speaks of freedom, freedom from liberty.